Iowa Inside Out (Iowa Heritage Collection S.) - Softcover

Hake, Herbert V.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813808448 ISBN 13: 9780813808444

Verlag: Iowa State University Press, 1987

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213pp, en ingles, Iowa Heritage Collection. con numerosas ilustraciones en blanco y negro dentro de texto. SOBRE LOS AUTORES:: Herb Hake (1903-80) was an American author, cartoonist, radio, and television personality; associated with the University of Northern Iowa. He was awarded an honorary doctoral degree.Herbert V. Hake, son of Henry and Louisa Hake, was born August 10, 1903, in Hoyleton, Illinois. His father was a painting contractor and a school board member who had some drawing skills. He nurtured Herb's strong interest in art. In the late 1920s, Herb studied at Central Wesleyan College in Warrenton, Missouri, earning a bachelor's degree in 1928.[1] He worked at various occupations including layout work for World Color Printing in St. Louis, and writing movie reviews for the St. Louis Times. After a year in St. Louis, he returned to his home county, took a teaching certification examination, and taught in a rural school for a year. He then did graduate work at Northwestern University in Illinois and joined the faculty at Central Wesleyan, where he taught 3 years. He then went to graduate school at the University of Missouri and later the University of Iowa, in Iowa City, Iowa where he earned his master's degree in scenic design in 1933. He then taught drama in the high school at Port Arthur, Texas. In the summer of 1936, he landed a job at the University of Missouri in Columbia with the theater department. From 1938 to 1942 he served as technical director, scenic designer and instructor of speech courses at the Iowa State Teachers College, in Cedar Falls, Iowa.[2] He and one other teacher ran the drama department. During World War II, the number of students at the college fell drastically. In 1942, the drama department was cut back by one, and Hake was asked to take over the radio business at the college or lose his job altogether. With very little experience or equipment, and a technical manual in hand, he started his new career. By the late 1950s he was le

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• Verlag: Iowa State University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0813808448
• ISBN 13: 9780813808444
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224